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Scranton, Pennsylvania · ScrantonIn July and August 1877, a series of workers’ strikes and uprisings cascaded across the country from the railroad shops of Martinsburg, West Virginia to the cities of the Midwest and back to the anthracite coal fields of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Scene at Martinsburg, West Virginia where workers on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad launched the Great Railroad Strike – Harper’s Weekly These labor actions were unplanned – they were reactions to yea…Read Article
A Worker’s Plea During the Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Shenandoah, Pennsylvania · Shenandoah“One afternoon, hunting for subjects, I took the trolley from Mahanoy City in the sunset to Shenandoah, and as we breasted a hill this is what I saw: the long lines of crosses are trolley poles the huge castle a coal breaker, the great town American, but the people, the miners who go to the churches which crown it, speak languages and worship creeds I do not know or understand. There, and not in Philadelphia, are the new Americans—but most Ameri…Read Article
A Dark and Ominous Sketch of Shenandoah, PA by Joseph Pennell
Civil War · PottsvilleThis photograph from the collections of the Library of Congress shows Captain Jacob Haas of Company G, 96th Pennsylvania during the Civil War. Photograph of Jacob Haas from the Library of Congress The photograph was taken by Schuylkill County photographer A.M. Allen at his studio at the corner of Centre and Market streets in Pottsville. We’ve written quite a bit about Haas and Company G, 96th Pennsylvania previously (see below). The photograph w…Read Article
